styleless
adjEtymology From style + -less.
1
Lacking good style or any style at all.
- It is not enough to say that style is a characteristic mode of expression, for then it would be almost impossible to speak of anything as styleless.1921, Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Dashiell, Harlan Logan, Scribner's Magazine:
- He was too thin, so that the styleless clothes hung poorly, and something in his coloring made her think that he ate the wrong foods.1992, Greg Johnson, A Friendly Deceit:
- Short-styled and styleless flowers were sometimes mixed in these individuals.1990, Nihon Shokubutsu Gakkai, The Botanical Magazine, Tokyo:
- Derived terms
- stylelessly, stylelessness